AC Shilton
@acshilton.bsky.social
Former Journalist Now In Tech • Farmer • Mediocre Cyclist + Ironman • Affirmation Chickens Author • Repped by
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This has not gotten much attention, but it should.
Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.
Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.
Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.
Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.
November 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This has not gotten much attention, but it should.
Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.
Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.
Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.
Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.
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Yes, @acshilton.bsky.social!:Special elections always create opportunity for change—& an off-cycle special on different dates (early runs 12-26.Nov! Election Day 02.Dec!) w/no incumbents?
Wide.Open.Race!
@aftynbehn.bsky.social is 💯% the change-making, committed, candidate we need—Vote Behn in CD7!
Wide.Open.Race!
@aftynbehn.bsky.social is 💯% the change-making, committed, candidate we need—Vote Behn in CD7!
Friends: Tennessee has a special election coming up Dec. 2 for its 7th house district that is winnable for a Dem. If you're feeling like celebrating by keeping our momentum going, consider chipping in to @aftynbehn.bsky.social's campaign.
www.aftynforcongress.com
www.aftynforcongress.com
Aftyn for Congress
FEED KIDS. FIX ROADS. FUND HOSPITALS.
www.aftynforcongress.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Yes, @acshilton.bsky.social!:Special elections always create opportunity for change—& an off-cycle special on different dates (early runs 12-26.Nov! Election Day 02.Dec!) w/no incumbents?
Wide.Open.Race!
@aftynbehn.bsky.social is 💯% the change-making, committed, candidate we need—Vote Behn in CD7!
Wide.Open.Race!
@aftynbehn.bsky.social is 💯% the change-making, committed, candidate we need—Vote Behn in CD7!
Friends: Tennessee has a special election coming up Dec. 2 for its 7th house district that is winnable for a Dem. If you're feeling like celebrating by keeping our momentum going, consider chipping in to @aftynbehn.bsky.social's campaign.
www.aftynforcongress.com
www.aftynforcongress.com
Aftyn for Congress
FEED KIDS. FIX ROADS. FUND HOSPITALS.
www.aftynforcongress.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Friends: Tennessee has a special election coming up Dec. 2 for its 7th house district that is winnable for a Dem. If you're feeling like celebrating by keeping our momentum going, consider chipping in to @aftynbehn.bsky.social's campaign.
www.aftynforcongress.com
www.aftynforcongress.com
Look, I don't want to make this about me, but my cousin's husband went to college with Mamdani and so basically this is partially my win too.
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Look, I don't want to make this about me, but my cousin's husband went to college with Mamdani and so basically this is partially my win too.
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hug your war criminals a little tighter today
November 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
hug your war criminals a little tighter today
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This is wild. Appeals Court Upholds Shaken Baby Conviction Despite Medical Examiner Recanting Testimony, by @pamelacolloff.bsky.social
Appeals Court Upholds Shaken Baby Conviction Despite Medical Examiner Recanting Testimony
Dissenting from the court’s majority, one judge sounded the alarm about ignoring recanted forensic testimony, saying the medical examiner’s reversal “calls into doubt the foundation of the trial.”
www.propublica.org
November 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This is wild. Appeals Court Upholds Shaken Baby Conviction Despite Medical Examiner Recanting Testimony, by @pamelacolloff.bsky.social
Hey @jerrigreen4tn.bsky.social, if you sold tiny Jerri Green for TN Gov stickers on your website, I'd plaster a bunch of these canned goods I'm about to put in blessing boxes all over my bright red town with 'em. Just saying!
November 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Hey @jerrigreen4tn.bsky.social, if you sold tiny Jerri Green for TN Gov stickers on your website, I'd plaster a bunch of these canned goods I'm about to put in blessing boxes all over my bright red town with 'em. Just saying!
Happy Halloween from our oldest and youngest doggos
October 31, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Happy Halloween from our oldest and youngest doggos
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Please read and share. www.ruralhealth.us/nationalrura...
www.ruralhealth.us
October 31, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Please read and share. www.ruralhealth.us/nationalrura...
This case is truly bananas, y'all.
A Tennessee man has been in jail for more than a month after posting a meme on Facebook trolling the memorial service for Charlie Kirk.
His bond has been set at $2 million.
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
His bond has been set at $2 million.
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Judge Gives LA U.S. Attorney the Alina Habba Treatment
Essayli Ruled Ineligible In what is now the third such ruling, a...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
This case is truly bananas, y'all.
Curious: and small Democrat groups in conservative areas planning Democrat branded blessing boxes or weekly food handouts during the shutdown? I'm thinking of starting one here, but would love to hash the idea out with others.
October 23, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Curious: and small Democrat groups in conservative areas planning Democrat branded blessing boxes or weekly food handouts during the shutdown? I'm thinking of starting one here, but would love to hash the idea out with others.
The government is just selling off stuff we, the taxpayers, paid for? Found on Facebook marketplace, from a federal building in Chicago, of course.
October 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The government is just selling off stuff we, the taxpayers, paid for? Found on Facebook marketplace, from a federal building in Chicago, of course.
Has Redbull Rampage always been this horrifying? The crash updates in my feed are just, yikes.
October 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Has Redbull Rampage always been this horrifying? The crash updates in my feed are just, yikes.
I'm in an area where Trump won 86 percent of the vote. We lined two sides of a city block this morning. Definitely way larger turnout than I've ever seen.
I hear from informed sources that these #NoKings rallies are more than twice as big as last time, making them easily the largest protests in US history. Thanks to everyone and especially organizers.
October 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I'm in an area where Trump won 86 percent of the vote. We lined two sides of a city block this morning. Definitely way larger turnout than I've ever seen.
Look, if I'm going to spend my life going to protests in rural Tennessee, I'm going to wear a unicorn costume and dance my tail off.
October 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Look, if I'm going to spend my life going to protests in rural Tennessee, I'm going to wear a unicorn costume and dance my tail off.
Old enough to remember when my editor yelled at me for being in the office too much. "This isn't where you find stories! No stories are happening here!" Paying commercial office space rates for journalists to all sit in NYC is silly.
2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.
My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.
My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.
October 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Old enough to remember when my editor yelled at me for being in the office too much. "This isn't where you find stories! No stories are happening here!" Paying commercial office space rates for journalists to all sit in NYC is silly.
2025 problems: I bought an inflatable unicorn costume but after Trump's 100 percent China tariff announcement I realize I should have bought a chicken 😭
October 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
2025 problems: I bought an inflatable unicorn costume but after Trump's 100 percent China tariff announcement I realize I should have bought a chicken 😭
Lol I avoid shaming PR folks (they have a job to do, and that's life), but this pitch is actually the worst pitch you could send me, a person who hates billionaires and loves firm boundaries.
October 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Lol I avoid shaming PR folks (they have a job to do, and that's life), but this pitch is actually the worst pitch you could send me, a person who hates billionaires and loves firm boundaries.
Anyone have a favorite inflatable unicorn suit they recommend? You know, just because.
October 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Anyone have a favorite inflatable unicorn suit they recommend? You know, just because.
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George Orwell’s Animal Crossing
October 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
George Orwell’s Animal Crossing
Turns out a lot of y'all with Live Laugh Love signs only really wanted that for white folks.
October 7, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Turns out a lot of y'all with Live Laugh Love signs only really wanted that for white folks.
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This picture is from 1992 in LA and using it in this post and story shows terrible news judgment.
"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr
October 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This picture is from 1992 in LA and using it in this post and story shows terrible news judgment.
On a scale of 1 to Oh God, Make It Stop, how much am I going to regret getting my toddler a pint sized harmonica?
October 3, 2025 at 11:10 PM
On a scale of 1 to Oh God, Make It Stop, how much am I going to regret getting my toddler a pint sized harmonica?
I made it to his 1 year checkup before they banned the MMR. Y'all, the relief is real.
October 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I made it to his 1 year checkup before they banned the MMR. Y'all, the relief is real.
Me, annoyingly explaining the grand jury selection process to my partner: it's random, you're just selected out of a database...
Him: in this case, a federal database?
Me: yes, that...oh...wait, they've been demanding voter information from states.
Him: and sharing data between agencies.
Him: in this case, a federal database?
Me: yes, that...oh...wait, they've been demanding voter information from states.
Him: and sharing data between agencies.
September 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Me, annoyingly explaining the grand jury selection process to my partner: it's random, you're just selected out of a database...
Him: in this case, a federal database?
Me: yes, that...oh...wait, they've been demanding voter information from states.
Him: and sharing data between agencies.
Him: in this case, a federal database?
Me: yes, that...oh...wait, they've been demanding voter information from states.
Him: and sharing data between agencies.